Manifolding device



F. E. SANIPSON.

MANIFOLDING DEVICE.

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FRANK E. SAMPSOIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

MANIFOLDING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 11, 1919.

Application :filed July 23, 1918. Serial N0. 246,420.

b all wlw/1n t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. SAMPsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident ofthe city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in appliances for assisting-in addressing stationery on a typewriter, and has for its 0bj ect the production of a device of this character through the medium of which stationery may be addressed with great rapidity and accuracy and with no additional eX- pense.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which,

Figure 1, is a top plan view of an addressing appliance embodying the invention, the same being shown arranged in operative relation with a letterhead and the envelop used in connection therewith,

Fig. 2, is a top plan view of the device alone, a portion thereof being broken away to expose underlying parts,

Fig. 3, a perspective view of the device, with a portion thereof broken away, and

Fig. 4, an enlarged section taken on substantially line 4 4 of Fig. 1.

The preferred form of construction, as illustrated in the drawings, comprises a thin flat body 5 in the form of a sheet of stout durable material, such as Celluloid, or other suitable material, having the qualities permitting of the same being passed through an ordinary typewriter. The member 5 is formed with two spaced flanges 6 and 7 punched therefrom, and which normally protrude from one side thereof, as clearly seen in Fig. fl. Secured at 8 to the front side of member 5 isasheet 9 of carbon or transI fer paper, which isy sensitized only at its under side.

With this arrangement it will be seen that' in addressing stationery, such for` example as an envelop 10, and a letterhead 11 which are to be used together, the envelop will be placed upon the member 5 under the transfer sheet 9 and against the stop flange 6, as clearly seen in dotted lines in Fig. 4. Then the letterhead 11 is placed over the transfer sheet 9 with one edge resting against or under the stop flange 7. The flaps 6 and 7 thus serve as means for holding the envelop and letterhead in fixed superposed relation so that when the member 5, together with the envelop and letterhead arranged in connection therewith, as described, is passed through a typewriter, the name and address which is applied to the letterhead will simultaneously be applied to the envelop, rendering it unnecessary to resort to a second operation such as is necessary at the present time in addressing the envelop. By thus holding the envelop and letterhead in proper superposed relation in the travel of the same through the typewriter, the name and address of the addressee will be correctly positioned upon the envelop and letterhead. To assist in properly positioning the stationery in a transverse direction, the member 5 may be provided with graduations 12.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. I therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the class described, a backing sheet; a flap integral with and punched out of said sheet adjacent the up per edge thereof and parallel therewith; a transfer sheet secured to said backing sheet; and means positioning the upper edge of an envelop parallel with the upper edge of said backing sheet, vsaid means being under said transfer sheet, substantially as described.

2. In a device of the class described, a flexible' backing' sheet; a flap integral with and punched out of said sheet adjacent the upper edge thereof and parallel therewith;

an additional flap punched outJ of and inteand spaced from said first mentioned Hap;

name to this specification in the presence of gral with said baokingsheet, parallel with two subscribing Witnesses.

and a transfer sheet secured to said backing FRANK E' SAMPSON' Sheet intermediate said flaps, substantially Witnesses:

as described. Y JOSHUA R. H.'PoTTs, In testimony whereof I have signed my ARTHUR A. OLSON.

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